Is That All You Got?

Hey, last time I checked, the only elections that mattered on judicial appointments were the ones that put the people in office who are there when the nominee comes up. So leave my boy, Jimmy, alone. So what's with your, won the election, standard? That means Al Gore ought to have made all of the appointments between 2000 and 2004!

And no, my point is not that the Senators get equal say in who gets appointed. But if 51 of 'em don't like the nominee the Prez is slurpin' on, guess WHAT? Bye, bye....

I suppose you would have voted to confirm Bork because your boy, Ronnie Reagan, won the '84 election in a landslide. Try to do better next time.

He's YOUR Boy!

Yeah, he may be getting confirmed. But SHOULD he be confirmed? I'm sick and tired of this crap about how the Republicans won the White House. The Constitution creates a role for the Senate in this, too. I think Biden won his election last time around. Come to think of it so did Leahy, Kennedy, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, and Durbin! What, are they supposed to just lay down and cry because the head of the ticket couldn't campaign his way out of a paper bag!? The Dems lost the election, give me a break. They lost ONE election. And why should it even matter if they did? Isn't the Court the one anti-democratic mechanism we have in our Constitution? Isn't that a good thing?

Pardon the Constitution, but I'm Tony Kornheiser

Whassup, homies? Welcome to PTC, where Wilbon and I will yap about the hot constitutional issues of the day.

Let's start out with what's on everyone's minds. Wilbon, your boy, Sam Alito, goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee starting on January 9th. He is highly qualified, well-educated, has 15 years of judicial experience, has argued before the Supreme Court many times, and by all accounts is a pretty good guy. On the other hand, he's staunchly, and I mean staunchly, conservative, it appears, in every way. Wilbon, what are the chances he gets confirmed?